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I agree! Hopefully the events will help people become aware enough that it becomes a habit. Especially if you bring children out to participate, so they can develop the habit early in life.

This is true, unless you buy organic (and is a major motivating factor for many people who do so.) I'm not against spearfishing, provided you eat what you take. As for the survey, I think I fit most closely into the naturalist category.

I've done some damage accidentally, but try very hard not to. I wish that there was more emphasis on OW classes about this stuff. While I remember that it was mentioned at least once or twice in my OW class, I don't think it usually gets driven home just how sensitive some of these aquatic...

I'm not sure how this happened, but even though International Coastal Cleanup day happened this past weekend, my beloved state of Oregon seems to be in a 1-week time warp, as the semi-annual "Great Oregon Beach Cleanup" is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 28th. (10am-1pm) SOLV (formerly Stop...

They do look pretty reachable. I was imagining the pockets being much higher when I read your initial description. Thanks for taking the time to post the images!

...but it sounds like having the weight pockects there might make them difficult to reach and ditch quickly in an emergency. Is that not the case? It doesn't make sense to me to wear ditchable weight pockets if you can't easily ditch the weight when you need to. I am currently waiting for...

The skills are incredibly useful, but on top of that, it's fun!

But since my dive club is going diving tomorrow on the Oregon Coast, I'll suggest that we combine it with a clean-up. I always try to pick up garbage when I go diving, but maybe tomorrow I can get everyone else involved!

I am a volunteer diver at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, and it is loads of fun. Most of the work is cleaning inside the tanks, but it doesn't even feel like work! I love it. It is different than OW diving, and you have to be very careful with your movements, as you'll probably be working in...

I know that if that had happened to me before my first pool session I'd have been so frustrated! I remember how excited I was to start, mainly because I'm still that excited about diving! If your instructor turns out to be a flake, don't give up! Find another instructor and keep going! I...

But I'll be diving tomorrow!!!! I really hope this beautiful weather hangs around a little longer.:sunny:

I also have long hair & dive a drysuit. I had never heard of the pantyhose/bank-robber solution before, but it sounds like it's worth a try. So far what I have been doing is using a cloth-covered ponytail rubber band, LOOSELY wound, then braiding my hair and putting another, tightly wound...

If you are monitoring your ascent rate by watching the graph on your computer, it seems like you have to be looking at the computer rather than those other things. I'm not adamantly against computers; in fact, I use one. But I like to plan my dives with tables to give me a better idea of...

I don't know too much about Sherwood regs in general, although I can say that several of the rental regs that my LDS has are Sherwoods. If you and your instructor decide that it is an appropriate reg for you, make sure that you get it serviced before you use it. Even if it's never been...

I'm going to be visiting people in Walla Walla and Spokane, Washington Sept 27-Oct 1st. I know it's not the first place people think of diving, but if there are any good spots for it, I'd love to get a little diving in while I'm "on vacation." If anyone here knows of any place in the region...

Although I agree that PADI sets up a lot of the things that they do to make more money by teaching more courses, and that their profit-driven philosophies sometimes are at odds with improving diver education, I do think it is a good idea to keep training dives for various specialties separate...

In my understanding, you can count the first dive of any of the PADI specialty courses towards AOW. AOW requires 1 deep dive, 1 night dive, and 1 underwater navigation dive, as well as two electives. If you took 5 PADI specialty courses, including the three required ones (deep, night, uw nav)...

I'm looking for recommendations on the best brand/type of wetsuit shampoo to buy, and also what the best place to buy it is. For some reason that I cannot fathom, my LDS only stocks it in the little, single-use packets. Thanks for your input!

I think that the Impulse 2 is considered a "dry" snorkel, but maybe "dry" snorkel means something more specific than what I'm thinking of. The Impulse 2 has a cone-shaped vent on the column that allows water that comes into the top of the snorkel to fall out before it reaches the bottom where...

...and DEFINITELY the buddy awareness issues. I've been entangled by both fishing line and kelp (though never both at once, yet) and usually it's not too difficult to untangle myself, or cut myself out with my trauma shears. Sometimes I have been aided by my buddy, other times I could do it...